Kalamazoo Michigan's Kevin VanDam takes a celebratory boat ride around the BJCC with wife Sherry and sons Nicholas and Jackson after he won the 40th annual Bassmaster Classic in February 2010 on Lay Lake. (Hal Yeager/The Birmingham News)

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Bassmasters will return to Birmingham in
February 2014 for the Bassmaster Classic, The Birmingham News and al.com have learned.

Gov.
Robert Bentley and Birmingham Mayor William Bell will join other city
officials and area leaders in announcing what they are calling a "major
event" coming to Birmingham in 2014.

The announcement is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Thursday in
the Arena Club at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex.

The Bassmaster Classic was most recently in Birmingham in February
of 2010. Weigh-ins were at the BJCC Arena and competition was on Lay Lake.